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Research by Slate on filibusters between 1991 and 2008 found that Democrats successfully filibustered 63 times while Republicans successfully filibustered 89 times.
But again Jim leaves out that they are looking to temporally change the rule for the John Lewis voting act which passed last time to just be debated
By a Vote of 98-0, Senate Approves 25-Year Extension of Voting Rights Act
Under Bush. Now no Republicans in the Senate voted for it? To even be debated
If Republicans want to argue that many leading Democrats have changed their minds about the propriety of filibusters, they'll have plenty of accurate content to work with. But context matters: the routinization of once-rare filibusters has changed the nature of the debate.
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